Speaker of the right-wing nationalist movement Right Sector Artem Skoropadsky has said detained Ukrainian citizen Liliya Kots in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was neither an activist nor a volunteer of their organization, Hromadske TV has repored, quoting Skoropadsky.
In turn, the commander of the volunteer battalion of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Mykola Kohanivsky also denied Kots’ ties with their battalion.
“I saw her once near the training battalion base, but she didn’t join our ranks,” he said.
As reported, in Donetsk on October 26 it became known on the detention of the Right Sector activist Liliya Kots by the self-proclaimed DPR.
“The DPR State Security Ministry has detained Liliya Romanivna Kots, 28, a citizen of Ukraine, a native of the village of Novy-Rozdil, Lviv region,” a representative of the DPR reported on Oct. 26.
“It has been determined that citizen Liliya Romanivna Kots, being an active member of the […] Right Sector and OUN. She arrived in the territory of the republic on an assignment from these organizations to organize the abduction of a DPR military serviceman. During the period from June 2015 to April 2016 Kots was trained in locations of the Right Sector (Mariupol) and OUN (village of Sharkovshchyna, Poltava region),” a DPR State Security Ministry official said.
